《荒野大镖客二》地图上那块过不去的墨西哥，一个玩家用二十二个月自己补上了，九月十六号免费发布

Today's story is about something a games player did.

First, the game.

It is called Red Dead Redemption 2, and it is a very famous game.

The story takes place in the American West a bit over a hundred years ago.

In the game you are a man on a horse.

You can ride around in an enormous space.

You can hunt, you can fish, or you can do nothing at all and just watch the sun go down.

A lot of people say it is the most beautiful game they have ever played.

But there is one place in this game that has always bothered people.

At the very bottom of the map there is a region called Nuevo Paraiso.

That is Mexico.

Standing on a hill and looking south, you can see it.

Far off, there are buildings, there are hills.

But you cannot get across.

You ride your horse to the river, and the game will not let you go any further.

Why is it like that?

Because in the previous game, players could go to Mexico.

For a lot of people it was their favourite part.

So when the second one was made, everybody assumed it would be there.

Only later did people find out that the company had not finished it.

What was left on the map was a shadow, and nobody could get inside.

The company that made this game is a very big one.

It has several thousand people, and plenty of money.

But all these years have gone by and they have never filled that region in.

Players waited a year, two years, many years.

Then one player stopped waiting.

He does not work at that company.

He is just a player who loves this game very much.

In April 2024 he started building Mexico himself.

Not a group of people working together — essentially him on his own.

How long did it take?

Twenty-two months.

Nearly two years.

Over those two years he had to build the hills, the rivers, the buildings.

He had to build the people on the roads and the things they say.

He had to make the new region join onto the old map so that riding across it you cannot tell.

And he had to make it fit the timeline of the earlier game.

Work like this normally takes a team several years.

This September he said it was finished.

He set a date: the sixteenth of September, when everyone can download it.

The most surprising part is the price.

There is none.

Not a cent.

If you own the game, you can install it and ride south.

That river you could never cross — now you can cross it.

What I find interesting about this is the following.

The company has thousands of people, money, and tools.

And this region was filled in by someone making games after he got off work.

He did not do it for money.

He did it because he wanted to go to that place, and that place did not exist.

So he made one.

Think about it:

There is something you really want, and nobody is making it.

Do you keep waiting, or do you get to work yourself?